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Storyteller Uprising

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  • Beginning, middle and so far no end!

    As I conclude this week, I have given three Storyteller Uprising talks (for Lowe + Partners in NYC, Adobe and OCLC in Seattle) and signed a number of books (the analog edition). I participated in the graduation of 55 of our students (our largest cohort ever).  We hosted a successful Screen Summit last night, handing…

  • The storyteller’s capital of Cascadia

    I conclude Chapter 19 Storytelling as Common Denominator of my Storyteller Uprising book with this: I highlighted those four words in the preceding paragraph – “entrepreneurship,” “innovation,” “community,”  “story” – as I see them as the core elements that all communicators must now draw upon if they wish to engage with trust and persuasion in…

  • Publish then Filter: my business model of perpetual release dates

    I love that turn of phrase from Clay Shirky’s still influential 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody.  Publish, then filter.  In the digital age, it means barriers to entry, costs, and content distribution platforms are all so accessible that the traditional mass media model of “filter, then publish” is no longer the norm. Net economics have…

  • Detroit Uprising: The Action Idea

    The short film above is the culmination of a project that my colleague Scott Macklin and I had pursued last summer, as an exercise in storytelling for this book, as well as for our Storytelling class earlier this year. Our working premise?  A conference for journalists seeking new business models, looks to Detroit’s incredible community…